Pierre Vallières

Pierre Vallières (February 22nd 1938 - December 23rd 1998) was born in the east from Montreal. It was Journaliste and writer; he was especially the author of very polemical militant tests and books treating of the independence of the Quebec.

In 1966, it became with Charles Gagnon one of the ideological chiefs of FLQ (Face of release of Quebec) and started an hunger strike at the head office of UNO in New York to protest against what it considered being the difficult situation of Quebec. Imprisoned to New York during four years for manslaughter, it devoted this time to the writing of a certain number of works.

Its most known work was White Negro of America , which compared the situation of the Inhabitants of Quebec with that of the Afro-Americans in fight for their civic rights. It partly took as a starting point the theses of André Laurendeau, which had stated the anti-duplessiste theory of the financial plot anglo-inhabitant of Quebec.

It also called with the armed struggle. It returned to Montreal little time after the events of the Crise of October 1970 and renonça to violence. He then united with the Parti Québécois in spite of the hostility Rene Lévesque in his connection, taking again his career of journalist and writer.

Sometimes still today, Pierre Vallières is qualified the resistant one legitimates, sometimes of terrorist, according to the points of view. The Inhabitants of Quebec themselves are not unanimous on this subject.

Work

White Negro of America, early autobiography of a Québécois “terrorist”. Montreal: Editions Left taken, 1967
To live without idle periods, to enjoy without obstacles! Paris, 1970
urgency to choose. Montreal Bias, 1971;
For a multinational common front of release. With Charles Gagnon. S.l. : Face of release of Quebec, 1971
impossible Quebec. Montreal: Editions Quebec/America, 1977
execution of Pierre Laporte: lower parts of the Operation. Montreal: Editions Quebec/America, 1977
associated scorpions. With Rene Lévesque. Montreal: Quebec-America editions, 1978
the ungovernable democracy. Montreal: Quebec/America, 1979
freedom in waste land. Montreal: Editions Quebec/America, 1979
To change company. With Serge Proulx. Montreal: Quebec/America, 1982
heirs to Papineau: political route of a " negro blanc" (1960-1985). Montreal, Quebec: Quebec/America, 1986
obscure Weddings. Montreal: The Hexagon, 1986
the duty of resistance. Montreal: VLB, 1994
Words of a white Negro. With Jacques the Jordan and Melanie Mailhot. Montreal: VLB editor, 2002

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